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> - Microsoft didn't care about mobile, thinking Windows CE was fine (they had ~42% marketshare in 2007) This was perhaps the big one. The CE/PocketPC lineage
by digi_owl 9y ago
> - Microsoft didn't care about mobile, thinking Windows CE was fine (they had ~42% marketshare in 2007)
This was perhaps the big one. The CE/PocketPC lineage had been going since the 90s, but Phone 7 was a sharp break with that.
Thus existing users knew they were hosed, and so no longer had a reason to be loyal to MS.
It is weird seeing MS forgo their biggest trump card in this way. Their continued grip on a market has been thanks to backwards compatibility. Yet they squandered that on mobile, and seems poised to squander it on desktop as well.